Exported packages now have informational tooltips that display the dates and full names of the exported packages.

Advanced Options When Exporting Offline

You can choose to export external drawings, environment or job palettes and libraries.

Checking In and Checking Out Scenes

New Checkin and Checkout commands let you lock or unlock scenes when you download them or upload them when your work is complete. Locked or checked out scenes can only be accessed in read-only mode on the database—see Checking Scenes In and Out in WebCC.

Partial Scene Updates between the Database Scene and Its Offline Version

Web Control Center allows you to update a database scene with only the changes you made to the same scene on your local computer, and vice versa. If there were changes to the database scene, you can download them to its offline version on your local computer. Web Control Center works in tandem with Harmony to make the upload, download and updating of scenes seamless and quick.

When uploading or downloading a scene, Harmony prepares the export package with only the changes in the scene, zips it, sends it over the Internet, unzips it and finally imports it. This is done directly in Harmony Premium or Harmony Advanced; there is no need to do this in the Web Control Center—see About Updating WebCC Scenes from Harmony.

Create scene statuses with different colours to help differentiate them. You can add new scene statuses and customize their name and colour, as well as manually edit the list—see Customizing the Scene Status Colour in WebCC.

Changes and Improvements

Changes and Improvements

Description

Unity Pipeline

Exporting to Sprite Sheets

Before you can access the new functionalities when exporting to a sprite sheet, you must replace the TB_CompositionBuilder.js and TB_ExportToSpriteSheets.js scripts with the most current ones found here:

Overwrite Project: Overwrites a previously exported project, including sprite sheet information and all Unity data. This does not affect the Harmony file in any way.

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Clear Texture Folder: Remove any information from the texture folder within the Harmony file. This does not affect the Unity export but contributes to a lighter Harmony file.

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Unit Scale: You can change the Unit Scale when exporting to Unity to accommodate the size of the export without it affecting the Harmony scene. This helps you resize assets properly for Unity without having to resize them in Harmony. The basic scale is one Animation Field for one Unity unit.

Names of Environments, Jobs and Scenes can contain up to 120 ASCII characters. This means you can use characters for languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, and others, characters for names in your database setup.

To enable this feature, select the Allow Unicode Names option in the Preferences dialog box, Advanced tab. This new option is also available from the Admin menu in the Control Center. For more information:

If you have an existing database, you must replace all the /USA_DB/dicts/ with the new ones from <application installation path>/etc/USADB_templates/dicts/ .

Miscellaneous

Stage Application Renamed

The Stage application is now called Harmony Premium, Harmony Advanced and Harmony Essentials.

3D Path Keyframes

3D Path keyframes can now be gesturally dragged horizontally (in time) in the function views.

Scrubbing Added to Function Editor View

You can now scrub in the Function Editor view.

Preferences Dialog Box

General Tab

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The Minimum FOV and Maximum FOV options were removed.

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New option for Web Control Center host name and host port in Harmony Advanced and Harmony Premium Stand Alone.

Drawing Tab

New options for defining the default canvas for bitmap layers (resolution, canvas width, canvas height). You can set the default value for the canvas used by bitmap layers in new scenes. This prevents users from creating unusually large bitmap canvases. You can set the resolution and the maximum canvas width and height.

Advanced Tab

New option called Allow Unicode Names lets you use up to 120 ASCII characters for names of environments, jobs and scenes. You can use characters for languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, and others, characters for names in your database setup.

File Menu

There are two new options in the File menu of Harmony Premium and Harmony Advanced Stand Alone for working with scenes on a database:

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New option called Update Database Scene lets you update your database with only the changes you made to the offline scene. To do this, you must enter your host name and host port in the Preferences dialog box, General tab.

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New option called Download Database Changes. If any changes were made to the scene you downloaded, you can perform an update by downloading these changes, which will be seamlessly integrated into your offline scene.